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Ed Kavalee and Tiffiny Hall were hoping The Amazing Race might feel like a second honeymoon – after Tiff’s dad gatecrashed their first!
“The first night when we had just arrived on our honeymoon, Tiff got a message saying that he was at the airport – then he got through the door,” Ed Kavalee tells TV WEEK. “And then my father-in-law announced: ‘It’s a family honeymoon, let’s watch a movie!’”
Ed Kavalee, 46, a regular panellist on Have You Been Paying Attention? and former Gladiator Tiffiny Hall, 41, married in 2014 and share two kids, son Arnold, and daughter Vada. Despite both balancing full-time careers since they became parents, their journey on The Amazing Race marked the longest time they’d ever been apart from their children.
“It was really hard to leave them,” Tiffiny reveals. “I was a little teary and missing them terribly. But they had such a great time with our nanny and their grandmother.
They were actually disappointed when we came home! But the experience of being in the race was worth it.”
While the couple had a blast, the race wasn’t without its anxiety-inducing moments – especially for Tiffiny, who lives with osteoarthritis and was pushed to her physical limits.
“We ended up doing 4km of jagged rocks, carrying heavy backpacks,” Tiff says. “Anyone out there with arthritis will understand the worst thing for it is going upstairs. Then we took a wrong turn – it really stuffed my knees.
“And I was anxious about one thing in particular: driving,” Tiffiny adds. “I am the worst driver in history. I’ve crashed three or four cars, and I was really anxious knowing I’d have to drive
with cameras in the car.
“That was just going to be all bad.”
The race may have tested them in every way, but it didn’t break them as a couple.
“We stayed strong and stayed married!” Tiff laughs in disbelief. “But the race was not relaxing; it was hectic.”
“I think we’ll need to go for a third honeymoon… on Love Island,” jokes Ed.
Ed and Tiffiny are joined by a line up of Aussie celebrities as they visit Taiwan, Java, and even Uzbekistan in the latest season of The Amazing Race.
The Amazing Race: Celebrity Edition returns to our screens 7:30pm Monday September 8 on Channel 10.
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